I would like to tell you that I've managed to resurrect my Kindle Touch with your help. I used the silver18's debricking guide for noobs and it worked like a charm. (Well, at least after I created a Windows XP virtual machine as I couldn't get all the drivers to install on Windows 8 64bit.)
I had bricked it ('Your kindle needs repair.' screen) while trying to uninstall hacks in order to get the 5.3.2 update (which is awesome, by the way).